WordNet
n. a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, graybeard]
Usage examples of "long-beard".
He bumped into a stark-naked long-bearded fakir and recoiled, doing a respectful namaskar as the sky-clad holy man continued playing his ektara, his wooden bow drawing a piercing monotone from the single-stringed instrument as he rolled his eyes back into his skull, lost in his ecstatic bhakti.
The men were long-bearded and the women bedraggled, all of them pinched from starvation, but El Sapo was trying to assert his old authority.
On the chapiters of the columns that support the portico, at the entrance of the castle in Chichen Itza, may be seen the carved figures of long-bearded men, with upraised hands, in the act of worshipping sacred trees.
The long-bearded wizards had come to his village, tested him and taken him back to their Sanctuary-as they took all the young ones chosen by birth to be wielders of magic.
Here was this long-bearded man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl, its knotted tassels sticking out from beneath his coat.